A PowerPoint presentation is a powerful digital tool often used in classrooms and meetings to teach and inform. However, you may wish to provide the PowerPoint presentation on a website for archive purposes. This allows other people to download the PowerPoint to review for later or for reference if they missed the original presentation. You can connect a website to a PowerPoint by uploading the presentation to a website or file host and creating an HTML link to the PowerPoint file.

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Upload the PowerPoint file to your website host as you would a normal file. If you don’t have a website host, you can upload the file to a free file hosting site such as FileFactory, MediaFire or FileDen.

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Record the URL address for the PowerPoint presentation file.

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Highlight the following code, right-click and select “Copy:” PowerPoint Name

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Open your website HTML code in a text or online editor.

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Right-click within the HTML code and select “Paste” to paste a copy of the code on your website.

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Change the “URL” in the code to the actual URL address of the PowerPoint file.

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Change the “PowerPoint Name” to the text you want to use as the link. This can be the name of the PowerPoint presentation or anything else you like.

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Save and post the changes to your website. Your site now provides a link that visitors can click to view and download your PowerPoint presentation.

Tips

A Web browser alone can't open a PowerPoint file. You must install either Microsoft Office, which includes the PowerPoint program, or the free PowerPoint Viewer software provided on the Microsoft website, to view the downloaded PowerPoint.

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Erin McManaway holds a B.A. in professional writing from Francis Marion University, where she earned the Richard B. Larsen Memorial Award for Business and Technical Writing. She has worked in materials development, media and information technology in the nonprofit sector since 2006. McManaway has also been a writer and editor since 2008.